Category: The Great Outdoors
Alexandra Park: 150 Years of the Park
Watch this space for lots of interesting things on the history of Alexandra Park in Manchester,...
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The Arcane World of Working-class Canary Breeding in Victorian Britain
When I was a boy, quite a few coal miners in the pit rows of County Durham kept canaries. Canaries...
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‘Pen and paper quizzes, games and dances’:
Holiday making with the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship
This podcast from Dr Douglas Hope, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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Healing Landscapes:
Psychology and the Outdoor Movement in the 1920s
This podcast from Prof Melanie Tebbutt, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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A Passion for Polo
 Not the glistening white spherical mint with the hole in the middle, but the game played on...
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Amsterdam and Ice Skating ~ Part 4 ~1937-1940
To read Part 3 of this series – Click HEREÂ 1937 ~ Gonne Donker Gonne Donker was the first...
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Amsterdam and Ice Skating ~ Part 3 ~ 1917-1934
To read Part 2 – Click HEREÂ 1917 ~Â The Twenty Towns Tour The Zuyder Zee Flood that struck...
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Amsterdam and Ice Skating ~ Part 2 ~ 1880-1892
To read the first part of this series – click HEREÂ 1880 – The Oldest Photographs of...
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Amsterdam and Ice Skating – The beginning…..
The oldest skates ever found in the Netherlands date from as far back as around AD 700. They were...
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The Changing Perception of the English Lake District from Shrine to Nature to National Playground: The Role of the Co-operative Holidays Association
https://youtu.be/zfb5ywm5Mag Presented by: Doug Hope The Co-operative Holidays Association (CHA),...
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‘Oh the good times of old England; in old England very good times’: Leisure in post- First World War rural reconstruction
Presented by Prof. Bob Snape Centre for Worktown Studies, University of Bolton ‘Oh the good times...
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Whipper In – The Northumberland And Durham Paperchase League
The North East Harrier League is the oldest cross country league in the country, it evolved from...
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